Shamrockpaw hurried, she could tell Nightlight was going slowly for her sake.

The glowing deputy halted, "Don't wear yourself out Shamrockpaw. Honestly, I just want to enjoy this first day."

"Why?" Shamrockpaw tilted her head, looking up at him.

Nightlight sighed, his whiskers ruffling. "Because I'm the deputy. I'm doomed to either go evil or die tragically."

"What about become leader?" Shamrockpaw offered, seeing the dark look on Nightlight's face.

"I can't, there isn't a prophecy about me." Nightlight shook himself. "Oh well, so long as there isn't a prophecy about anyone in the Clan I'll be fine. Now come on, I need to show you the border."

Shamrockpaw blinked, before following the once more relaxed deputy. "Which border?"

"The MythClan one, we're almost there." Nightlight told her. "You can tell because we're reaching the edge of the biome."

Shamrockpaw looked around, and realized the trees were thining out. "Woah!"

A giant mountain was right next to their territory. "How come we can't see this from camp?"

"I'm not sure." Nightlight shrugged. "That's Mount Olympus where MythClan lives."

"Halt!" Shamrockpaw jumped, as a red she-cat ran up them. "Oh, hi Nightlight, I'm sorry, I thought you'd crossed the border."

"That's alright, Shamrockpaw, this is Mermaidtail, deputy of MythClan." Nightlight dipped his head, "Mermaidtail this is my apprentice, Shamrockpaw."

"Hi!" the deputy greeted her cheerfully.

Shamrockpaw dipped her head shyly.

"You'll want to be careful now Nightlight, you're asking for trouble having an apprentice." Mermaidtail hissed to him, which confused Shamrockpaw. Once more Nightlight's face darkened.

"Can we not talk about that?" he muttered, "I want to enjoy this."

"It's fine. Talk to her, pay no attention to me." A deep voice quipped, seeming mildly annoyed.

Shamrockpaw looked around Mermaidtail and yelped. A large gray… she thought it was a cat, stood on the rocks, she could make out his fangs, and somewhat ragged pelt. He almost looked like a wolf, not that she'd ever seen one to compare him to.

"Fenrirfang!" Nightlight perked up, "Get over here, you can meet my apprentice too."

The large tom hopped down the rocks with ease, stopping a distance away from her. "Has she had training yet?"

Nightlight shook his head, "First day out."

"It's nice to meet you." When the tom spoke, his fangs became more obvious. "My siblings are almost finished with their training."

"Good to hear." Nightlight dipped his head, "Hopefully I'll see all of you at the Gathering."

"Probably." Mermaidtail commented, "You know Mythstar likes showing him off, and-"

"Mermaidtail! Gobincall is trying to eat bugs!" a bright orange she-cat raced up.

"Again?" Mermaidtail sighed, "I'll go deal with her."

"Umm…" Shamrockpaw stared at the warrior, "You're… kind of on fire."

The she-cats bright green eyes widened. "Oh no, really? Not again!" with that the flames spread over her, and she burned up.

Shamrockpaw stared, her jaw hanging open. "W-what?"

"It gets better." Fenrirfang muttered, licking one paw.

From the pile of ash a flame shot up, and the she-cat's voice announced loudly,

"I HAVE BEEN REBORN!"

Fenrirfang yawned, "Yes, it's the third Tuesday of the month, you always do this."

The orange she-cat huffed. "Whatever. Sorry for not introducing myself, I'm Phoenixflower. Bye Nightlight, Shamrockpaw it was nice to meet you, see you later!"

Shamrockpaw had no time to wonder how the she-cat knew her name, before she was gone.

Nightlight shook himself, a bit of ash flying off his whisker. "We should be going."

"As should I." Fenrirfang agreed. "I'll see you at the gathering, old friend."

"Back at you." Nightlight grinned, as Fenrirfang turned and loped away.

Shamrockpaw blinked, "What just happened?"

"MythClan's like that, you'll have to get used to it." Nightlight admitted. "But only a few of them. Most are normal cats like DiamondClan."

Shamrockpaw nodded slowly, following her mentor along the border. "So you're friends with Fenrirfang?"

"Back as apprentices we always seemed to run into each other at Gatherings." Nightlight answered. "Now he hangs out with me because I let him try the massage chairs."

"Try the what?" Shamrockpaw's eyes were huge.

"Oh, you'll have to be a good apprentice so I can take you to the Gathering." Nightlight teased. "I'm sure you can handle it." He turned away from the border. "I'll show you GemClan some other time. We should get back to camp."

Shamrockpaw wasn't going to object, her paws hurt, she was hungry, and she wasn't sure how strange GemClan would be.

"At least you can tell your brothers about this." Nightlight pointed out, his whiskers twitching when she perked up.

"Let's get back to camp then!"

XXX

"Foreverpaw! Foreverpaw!" Shamrockpaw raced over to her brother, leaving Nightlight at the entrance, "Guess what?"

Foreverpaw looked up from his mouse. "What?"

"I saw some MythClan cats!" Shamrockpaw wiggled, "It was so cool!"

Foreverpaw looked envious, "You have all the luck!"

"Well what did Angelgrace do with you?" Shamrockpaw tilted her head.

"He taught me how to flirt with she-cats!" Foreverpaw looked scandalized, his silver eyes huge. "It was terrible."

"You think you have it bad?" they jumped at Abysspaw's voice, turning to look at their brother. The white tom was limping, his tail lashing behind him.

"What happened?" Shamrockpaw's eyes widened.

"Glitterbubble tried to teach me about Defying Gravity." He muttered, "it didn't work."

"You want some of my shrew?" Foreverpaw offered, shoving some of the rodent to their brother, who turned his head away.

"No, thanks." He muttered snidely, and limped off.

Shamrockpaw huffed, "I don't know why Abysspaw has never liked anyone."

Foreverpaw blinked, "He likes Endlesspaw."

"He does?!" Shamrockpaw yelped, and then lowered her voice, feeling herself burning at the mention of the blue eyed medicine cat apprentice, "He does?"

"Haven't you seen them talking?" Foreverpaw asked, tilting his head. "Only cat I've ever seen Abysspaw be nice to."

"Are you still sharing that rabbit?" Shamrockpaw asked, glancing at Foreverpaw's prey, trying to change the subject from hot medicine cats.

"Absolutely." Foreverpaw shoved it to her. "Feel free to have some."

XXX

A.N.: So what was Foreverpaw eating anyway? Why is Abysspaw mean to everyone? Will Shamrockpaw figure out that she Endlesspaw are destined to be together? Will Nightlight die?

Of course, then there's the most important question of all…

How many references can I make in one chapter?

Find out (maybe) next time in Diamonds Shatter!